S5991 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Requires maternal healthcare facilities to permit doulas to be present in the operating room while a cesarean section is being performed.
- Title
- Permits doulas to be present in the operating room while a cesarean section is being performed
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- Signed by Governor
- Latest action date
- 2024-12-21
- Introduced
- 2023-03-24
- Active version
- S5991A
- Same as
- A7606
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Roxanne J. Persaud State Senator, District 19
Co-sponsors
- John C. Liu State Senator, District 16
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. State Senator, District 15
- Luis R. Sepúlveda State Senator, District 32
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
- Robert Jackson State Senator, District 31
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Assembly committee
- Women's Issues NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A7606 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A7606 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Women's Issues, 2024-01-08 First reading
- Women's Issues, 2023-05-23 First reading